The material I did was lasting material. A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything, but I was in the studio. The biggest factor is the material you choose. You hunt, you cut.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I just try to do as good job with the material as I can and play some jazz as well, some improvised music, and do that every night. Just see where it goes.
Being a studio make-up artist and working on magazines was the only thing I wanted to do.
I really don't want to make the same film twice, so I am conscious of going after material that is significantly different to anything I've done before.
I found the most difficult thing when you became successful - when I had the record album, it won Album of the Year - that you were cut off from the source of your material. Your material was everyday people, and you were kind of cut off from that, and you had to work at it.
I am an independent film-maker first and foremost. I have always cut my own cloth.
Being in the studio is like painting, you know, you can really take your time, and try different things, and kind of go deep into it.
I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.
I would have been content to just do studio work, making it on my own never really entered my mind.
On the last couple of movies I made - big-budget Hollywood movies - I really missed being able to create my own material.
I just continue to look for different material, great material, as good as I can find, and try to go in there and do as good a job as I can do in making it a record. That's all you can expect. That's all that you can do.